OPERATION GLADIO: A Warning to Syriza and Greece?

It has not been an easy first day in office for Greece’s newly elected anti-austerity party Syriza.

Two Greeks and eight French were killed when a “Greek F16 fighter jet crashed at Albacete airbase in central Spain”. The jet was taking part in a training exercise in a “Tactical Leadership Programme of NATO”.

Syriza’s election represents a direct attack on Anglo-American and NATO aims for the world; as their anti-austerity policies reject the financial oligarchy’s IMF. A definitive analysis has been assembled detailing how Hollande’s recent change in rhetoric, refusing to demonize Putin in particular, could have posed a strong motive for the recent attack in Paris.

Such a theory is not beyond the realms of possibility. One only needs to look towards Operation Gladio, a NATO stay-behind operation during the Cold War that sought to ensure Communism was never able to gain a foothold in Europe; by supporting radical right-wing groups to suppress, through acts of terrorism, any attempts of Communist groups to acquire power.

10 dead after F16 fighter jet crashes at Albacete airbase in Spain

RT NewsTen people were killed and 13 others injured after a Greek F16 fighter jet crashed at Albacete airbase in central Spain, the Defense Ministry reported. Along with the Greek pilots, eight French nationals were reportedly among the dead.

The plane exploded in the parking zone of Los Llanos airbase in Albacete. The accident happened at about 3:20 PM local time.

“The plane, part of the Tactical Leadership Programme of NATO was carrying out a (training) exercise when during take-off the plane lost power, crashing into the parking area for planes, crashing into various planes that were parked there,” the defence ministry said in a statement.

“It appears that there were two Greek nationals and eight French among the dead,” Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said in an interview with Spanish television channel Telecino, according to France24.

At least 13 have been wounded, including French and nine Italian nationals. The victims were underneath parked planes when they were injured.

“I am deeply saddened,” said NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in a statement. “This is a tragedy which affects the whole NATO family…